The Life and Art of Anne Eisner: An American Artist between Cultures

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The Life and Art of Anne Eisner: An American Artist between Cultures

March 11, 2021 0 416
Anne Eisner came of age in the 1930s and 1940s, during the struggle among artists and intellectuals to combat fascism and create a better world. After studying at the Art Students League, she left a successful career as a painter to follow Patrick Putnam, with whom she had fallen passionately in love, to Epulu, a multicultural community in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Communion of Skill and Conscience

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The Communion of Skill and Conscience

February 10, 2021 0 504
Kollwitz’s art was both a response to the suffering of others and a processing of personal experience. For Kollwitz, character born of hardship was indistinguishable from—lo, was the necessary source of—beauty.
The Portrait <i>Ralph</i> by Diego Catalán Amilivia

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The Portrait Ralph by Diego Catalán Amilivia

February 7, 2021 0 560
As all portrait artists know, there is something solemnly ceremonious about the full-profile position. We do not make eye contact—that being somehow beneath the authority of the subject—just as the set mouth seems to be not just momentarily, but eternally, silent.
From Zero to Zoom

From Zero to Zoom

December 22, 2020 0 567
Zoom offers a different kind of learning experience, a natural fit for lectures, demonstrations, or art history. But what about for studio workshops? 
Quarantined II

Quarantined II

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Artists from James Little’s class, “Non-Objective Painting, Color and Design,” forge ahead with their work over ZOOM.
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